I'm finally getting around to updating my phone to 2.3.4 (bought a house over the summer and haven't had time to play with updates).
I currently have a rooted 2.2.2 Atrix with my apps/data backed up via Titanium Backup and saved off to my desktop for later restoration if needed. Except for Root and APN mod, the phone is otherwise stock.
I'm not necessarily interested in using a custom rom right now (though a wipe of data/apps may help clean things up), though I do need root, APN hack, and plan on installing the full-linux-webtop mod (if I can get my laptop dock to work reliably...). I assume things have evolved since the old posts I've come across about updating when it first came out.
What is the best method for updating to 2.3.4 at this stage?
thanks,
- David
In my opinion you should still unlock your phone even if you are staying with a stock rom. It is way easier to flash with CWM method, even if you are staying with a stock rom. Look at Fruitcake 2.3.4 and you can also flash a fruitcake 2.3.4 webtop. If you mess up your webtop hacking on it to get it just like you want it, your can reflash just the webtop.
Of course after you unlock your phone, you will probably get the itch to look at some of the custom roms that are out there. A lot of them are basically the stock rom with customizations built in.
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I'm thinking about SBFing my rooted x2 back to 2.3.3 from 2.3.4 because of the terrible battery indicator, and was just wondering if I would be able to update straight to 2.3.5 (or possibly ICS) when the update comes. I don't know why this wouldn't be possible, but I just wanted to make sure before I actually SBFed the phone.
I also was wondering if my phone would still be rooted after the SBF because of the maintain-root-through-any-update mod. Any thoughts?
On a different note, if I had the x2 bootstrap, the maintain-root-through-any-update mod, and MyBackup Root, could I just backup all my apps and the system (using MyBackup Root and the bootstrap, respectively), SBF, then restore the phone by downloading the bootstrap and MyBackup Root and restoring my apps/system? Would this get my back to where I was before, or would I have to manually download each one of my apps and lose all previous data that I had on them? I'm just wondering what's the easiest way to restore my phone back to the layout that I had before I SBFed.
Thanks for your answers to any of these 3 questions!!! I definitely appreciate it.
germmeetsworld said:
I'm thinking about SBFing my rooted x2 back to 2.3.3 from 2.3.4 because of the terrible battery indicator, and was just wondering if I would be able to update straight to 2.3.5 (or possibly ICS) when the update comes. I don't know why this wouldn't be possible, but I just wanted to make sure before I actually SBFed the phone.
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Perhaps someone elses experience proves different however, I kept 2.2.2 on my DX2 for quite some time because of similar reasons. When I decided to take the plunge from 2.2.2 and upgraded to 2.3.4 OTA, my phone needed to first upgrade to 2.3.3 before it would upgrade to 2.3.4. Thus, I had to perform two separate OTA updates.
If you're going to SBF you can SBF directly from your current version to the desired version.
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I also was wondering if my phone would still be rooted after the SBF because of the maintain-root-through-any-update mod. Any thoughts?
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To be honest, I'm not sure. I personally prefer to SBF to a clean DX2, wiping all settings and cache. To me I treat it like formatting my computer with a clean install of it's OS.
Perhaps someone else will have more insight with the maintain root through updates mod.
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On a different note, if I had the x2 bootstrap, the maintain-root-through-any-update mod, and MyBackup Root, could I just backup all my apps and the system (using MyBackup Root and the bootstrap, respectively), SBF, then restore the phone by downloading the bootstrap and MyBackup Root and restoring my apps/system? Would this get my back to where I was before, or would I have to manually download each one of my apps and lose all previous data that I had on them? I'm just wondering what's the easiest way to restore my phone back to the layout that I had before I SBFed.
Thanks for your answers to any of these 3 questions!!! I definitely appreciate it.
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What I typically do is using the X2 Bootstrap, I make a Nandroid backup and restore directly from that. Performing an SBF is only going to be necessary if the backup was on a different kernel, otherwise if you may run into boot looping.
What exactly happened and what are you trying to do? Are you trying to restore your phone to an earlier point via SBF? As in you enjoyed the phone on 2.3.3, made a backup and now you're unhappy on 2.3.4 and wish to go back?
It sounds like if you were to SBF back to your desired version (the version you made the backups on) you would then be able to apply your backups and should be back to your desired phone state.
I'm slightly confused to the details due to the way it's worded. I know it's somewhat difficult to describe but that's the basic idea I'm getting. Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong or fill in the blanks.
Is 2.3.5 much better?
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Okay so what I did was SBF back to 2.3.3 (I did this two nights ago) and before I did that, I:
1. Renamed the bloatware back to .apk (I had the suffix's ".bak" as an alternate "freezing" method).
2. Used MyBackup Root to make a backup of all my apps+their data.
3. Made a backup of the phone using the bootstrap.
4. SBFed
5. Rooted
6. Downloaded MyBackup Root
7. Restored all my apps and data and it worked!!!
8. Celebrated! I had no faith in it working but all my apps are back! I was so impressed, I was expecting to have to redo all my games and everything. MyBackup Root is such a sweet app, or I'm just a loser.
I hoped this helped other people, I had no idea what was gonna happen, no one's ever told me how to specifically get my phone back to the layout that I wanted.
and related to reaktor's post, what I was doing was SBFing back to my desired state of 2.3.3, just because I hate the battery glitch on 2.3.4. It had nothing to do with any apps I had, sorry for the confusion.
Your last reply was a little off but that was my fault, I'm sorry for my wording haha. I just have never known how to NOT have to redownload all my apps and start over on my games' data once I restore/SBF a phone. Now I know.
BTW my phone didn't maintain its root, just for reference for others. I had to reroot.
Well... You might want to do that again. There's now a battery fix for 2.3.4 and 2.3.5 in the dev forum.
Pepperm1nt's battery fix thread @ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1350336
It works great
Greatttttt haha all that fer nuthin. I may update again, or I just might wait til I get bored with the phone again to install this. Thanks a bunch for the link though!
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The battery fix works great. Just flash it over stock or any custom rom. It works perfect!
I am merely rooted, so no other mods. I did my over the air update to 4.5.141 last week and have had nothing but problems: spontaneous reboots, weird A2DP stuff (launching both music and beyond pod simultaneously and locking the phone!), poor battery life.
I want to go back to what was stable and worked, 2.3.4 (4.5.91) and am confused as to how to safely do this. From what I read, I cannot use the old SBF because it will brick the phone. I have not found the SPF for 2.3.4, anyway, so that is probably not important. I do not really want to use CWM and a new rom, I just want to use the phone. I root for WifiTether and Ti backup reasons only and do not need to do anything else. I can wait for Q4 for ICS, but not if it has all these problems over the next 10 months!
How can I go safely back to a stock 2.3.4?
Keithspg
The only thing I can think of is to unlock the bootloader (if possible) and flashing a fruitcake. I haven't read of anyone successfully unlocking the bootloader after the OTA AND having never unlocked it before but that doesn't mean it's not possible.
keithspg said:
I am merely rooted, so no other mods. I did my over the air update to 4.5.141 last week and have had nothing but problems: spontaneous reboots, weird A2DP stuff (launching both music and beyond pod simultaneously and locking the phone!), poor battery life.
I want to go back to what was stable and worked, 2.3.4 (4.5.91) and am confused as to how to safely do this. From what I read, I cannot use the old SBF because it will brick the phone. I have not found the SPF for 2.3.4, anyway, so that is probably not important. I do not really want to use CWM and a new rom, I just want to use the phone. I root for WifiTether and Ti backup reasons only and do not need to do anything else. I can wait for Q4 for ICS, but not if it has all these problems over the next 10 months!
How can I go safely back to a stock 2.3.4?
Keithspg
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I'm with you Keith
I am also rooted for TI backup. Since the update WiFi has been randomly dropping. My ABC news app keeps losing connection when going to video section. While on Android IRC WiFi drops out and I have to reconnect. Before update WiFi remained connected for days.
I have way too much work into the phone to reformat to anything. I am hoping ICS upgrade will fix the problem but who knows what they will bring.
Since we are rooted there is no way Motorola will support us. We need a dev here to figure out what went wrong. (
Just backed up, wiped the phone (from fastboot menu), re-rooted, restored. Not an hour later, spontaneous power off while in my pocket. This really sucks. I can un-root, if that will fix it, but do not see how root can be causing the problem. Still have not unlocked the boot loader and would use that only as a last resort.
Regardless, it is not clear to me that the 3.2.4 unlock instructions will work with 3.2.6.
I do not know what a pudding or a fruitcake is, really. I have been reading about CM7 and it does not not appear as 'released' for Atrix. Also it looks like a hassle to add everything Google after you install it *and* the fingerprint sensor does not yet work with the alpha builds which do exist for Atrix.
not happy at all.
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Just backed up, wiped the phone (from fastboot menu), re-rooted, restored. Not an hour later, spontaneous power off while in my pocket. This really sucks. I can un-root, if that will fix it, but do not see how root can be causing the problem. Still have not unlocked the boot loader and would use that only as a last resort.
Regardless, it is not clear to me that the 3.2.4 unlock instructions will work with 3.2.6.
I do not know what a pudding or a fruitcake is, really. I have been reading about CM7 and it does not not appear as 'released' for Atrix. Also it looks like a hassle to add everything Google after you install it *and* the fingerprint sensor does not yet work with the alpha builds which do exist for Atrix.
not happy at all.
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Adding the Google "everything" is actually very easy. Flash the gapps after the rom, then first time you go to market after signing in, it prompts you to install whatever google apps you want. As for the fingerprint, I'm on cm7 weekly build Feb 20 and I only use fingerprint to unlock. So it works. And its been very stable for me so far. Hth
Wife has a Razr MAXX through Verizon. I have previously rooted it and frozen some Bloat, but aside from that, it is stock. Android 2.3.6 and System ver 6.12.181.XT912.
Recently, the phone started getting Software update notifications, I am assuming this is the OTA ICS. My question is if I can somehow upgrade the phone to ICS (not a custom ROM, but stock or very stock-ish) and either not have to wipe the phone, or not have to unroot and the re-root (if that is even possible on ICS yet.)
Loaded questions, sorry, but I just want my wife to experience ICS without her b*tching about custom ROMs and so I can backup her APK+Data in Titanium.
Thanks in advance of your responses!
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Wife has a Razr MAXX through Verizon. I have previously rooted it and frozen some Bloat, but aside from that, it is stock. Android 2.3.6 and System ver 6.12.181.XT912.
Recently, the phone started getting Software update notifications, I am assuming this is the OTA ICS. My question is if I can somehow upgrade the phone to ICS (not a custom ROM, but stock or very stock-ish) and either not have to wipe the phone, or not have to unroot and the re-root (if that is even possible on ICS yet.)
Loaded questions, sorry, but I just want my wife to experience ICS without her b*tching about custom ROMs and so I can backup her APK+Data in Titanium.
Thanks in advance of your responses!
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Well, I decided to bite the bullet and just did a complete App/Data backup and flashed the Fastboot ICS files using RSD Lite. So far, it looks like things went well and I will root it and restore. Sorry for creating this thread, I guess I am too antsy!
Is this possible? The full details are I had my phone stolen, and got a new one with android 4.0.4 on it. I have on my computer a copy of my latest backup of my old cognition gingerbread rom. Can I just use CWM to recover to my old rom, or do i need to first downgrade to a gingerbread rom, and then recover?
Thankyou very much for assistance
Edit: Also, I don't actually want to use the old rom, I just need the contacts it saved, afterwards I'll wipe everything and install a clean ICS mod. In case there's any way of doing this without having to revert
You'll probably need to restore the backup with a version of CWM close to the one the backup was made with, you can often have problems restoring if you're using a CWM version a lot (say 12 mths or more) newer than the one you made the backup with.
So I'd probably go GB/with a rooted GB kernel first, restore the backup & go from there. I mean, it could work first try with an ICS kernel that's running a recent CWM build, but there's a fair chance it won't.
Edit - And be really careful with stock 4.0.4, don't do a wipe while you're running that.
Wow. I just... wow.
Ok, so I did the stupid thing and just tried to restore my old backup without doing proper downgrading first and it ended up soft bricking my machine, couldn't get recovery mode up, but I got into download mode. So I downloaded my country's stock gingerbread rom from samsung's site and flashed it with odin just to see what happens, and somehow my old rom was working again, and I have all my contacts and data. saved everything up to google, upgraded to ICS, import.
Everything went better than expected.
Thanks for the help
Told you Important thing is you managed to fix it yourself without asking silly questions in Q&A. Not many people seem to be able to do that these days.
Well done. I'm glad you got it sorted
Edit -You're welcome
Dunno if I'm risking flaming but here goes...
Had my Rez from day one, the phone is HTC unlocked but S-ON. I am still running a stock, rooted and debloated GB rom (based on the very first OTA update we got way back when). The rom has run great for me and so I never really had much reason to update...
The ONLY persistent issue I've had is with 4G cutting out, usually whenever trying to watch vids on Youtube, or trying to use Google Maps. Works fine on 3G. Way back when, someone had posted a thread where a lot of people mentioned they were having this exact same issue, so I figured that it was not an issue with my particular phone or even the rom/firmware. Even non-Rezound Verizon customers were complaining that they were having the same issues at the time (early last summer) so it seemed to be a network issue.
Fast forward a year and no one seems to be complaining about this issue anymore, and my wife has a Galaxy S3 that does not exhibit the problem... so I'm assuming that one of the OTA's that bumped the Rez up to ICS and updated the radios/firmware fixed this issue as well, so I would like to finally update to the latest and hopefully be done with this issue.
I have been reading threads and I think I know what steps I need to take, and wanted to run it by you guys and make sure I'm not missing something or doing something I shouldn't be, and that I have them in the right order... so here's my understanding:
1. Make a nandroid and titanium backups
2. Backup everything on the internal and external SD card
3. Relock device
4. Do I need to flash back to the stock GB OTA (to restore stock bloat apps that I've removed) or can I go straight to next step??
5. Flash latest RUU (can I do this from a PH98IMG.zip or does it have to be an RUU.exe run from my computer? I strongly prefer the PH98IMG method if possible)
6. Unlock device
7. Flash recovery
8. Root device
I don't really have any interest in S-Off or any custom roms, so I have left those steps off. Even back with the Incredible and now with the Rez, I've always been happy with the stock Sense rom just with bloatware removed, and that's my end goal here as well. So, do I have everything covered?
Points 1 & 4
1. Use MyBackup root instead of Titanium.
4. It will do a complete wipe also in the process, not needed.
PH98IMG will work, I highly and strongly suggest contemplating s-off NOW(if you really want to, not needed) versus doing it after. The PH98IMG you might want to look at is 3.14.605.12. If it's of any help, there was a few OTA's on top of that, which VZW may ask if you want to take through an OTA on the Rez's rom.
cool thank you for the tips. I was able to get onto the latest global OTA and firmware without issue.